Corn-planter.



PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

HQ SGHLIGHT.

CORN PLANTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1B, 1903.

no MODEL.

INVENITOR I WITNESSES UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 1904.

HANS SOHLICHT, OF l/VALNUT, IOl/VA.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPEGI FIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,258, dated J uly5, 1904.

Application filed May 18, 1903. Serial No. 157,587.' (No model.)

To all whom it nuty concern.-

Be it known that I, HANS SoI-ILIoI-IT, residing at Walnut, in the countyofPottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented certain usefulImprovements in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in corn-planters.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved dropper mechanismadapted to be secured to any ordinary corn-planter in which there isprovided a rotating axle.

In the accompanying drawings 1 have shown in Figure 1 a side view of mydropper mechanism with parts broken away. Fig. 2 shows a top Viewthereof with portions broken away, while Fig. 3 shows a detail of theadjustingbar as used in my invention.

As has been set forth, the object of my invention is to provide adropper mechanism to be attached to any corn-planter provided with theusual hopper and arotating driving-shaft.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows an ordinary driving-axle 1,secured to a suitable hound 4 and being revolubly supported thereby, asis usual, and to this driving-axle 1 is secured an ordinary chain-gear2, over which extends a chain 3, Working over a suitable chain-gear O,as shown in Fig. 2, which is revolubly secured to a bracket 21, securedto a suitable supporting-bar secured in any manner to the corn-planterstructure. This bracket 21 is further provided with a suitable disk 14,from which extends the crank-pin 15, supporting the pitman 16, which bymeans of a pin 17 is secured to the rockbar 20, held by the pin 18,secured to a block 19, fastened to a suitable frame member K of thecorn-planter. Secured to a suitable part of the planter-frame K'is asleeve H, within which works a shaft L, which shaft supports a suitableratchet-edged perforatedfeed-plate D, which is held and supported bymeans of a slotted plate C, provided with the support ing-ribs f, bymeans of which this bottom plate C is secured to the planter-frame members gin a suitable manner. Held above the bottom plate C and supportedby means of the upper edges of the ribs f, as is shown in Fig. 1, is aring 13, to which is secured a suitable hopper, as is usual incorn-planter construction, this hopper being provided with a suitableslot through which the bridge-bar 12, secured to the adjusting-bar B,would. extend. The hopper being old forms no part of my invention.

It will be noticed that the ratchet-edged feedplate D is provided with aplurality of openings 00, which are disposed in three circles, the inneropenings being the smallest and the outer being the largest, and theseopenings are adapted to hold grain in varying numbers, the inneropenings, for instance, being adapted to hold three grains, the nextfour, and theouter five. Secured to the hound 4 is the supporting-bar10, which is provided with a pivot 7), supporting the pivoted lever a,which lever at one end is secured by means of the pivot-pin Z) to theadjusting-bar B, which below is provided with a plate A, as shown inFig. 3, adapted to work into a slot within the bottom plate C, this slotbeing of a length so that all of the openings within the plate (l comein alinement there and register with said, slot, so that anything withinthese openings :0 will drop through the slot and rest upon the plate A.Extending from the adjusting-bar B is the bridge-bar 12, which is heldabove the ratchet-edged feed-plate D and is provided with a nosing a, bymeans of which the bridge-bar is supported at its free end. Socured tothe pivoted lever a is a yoke (6, which yoke is secured to aconnecting-bar c, which, by means of a pin 8, is secured to an ordinaryadjusting-lever 7, working in conjunction with the notched sector 9, sothat by Ioo which supports the seed and forms really the bottom of thehopper and which has all its openings 01 filled, so that the seed Withinthe openings as they come above the slot within the bottom plate G arepermitted to drop through. As the axle 1 rotates the chain 3 is actuatedto rotate the disk 1a to rock the bar 20 backward and forward, and thisbar is loosely mounted on the pin 18, so that the same at its upper endwill work over the ratchetedged perforated feed-plate D to rotate thesame. The grain is prevented from packing above the openings w by meansof the bridgebar 12.

It is of course understood that in corn-planters usually two droppermechanisms are employed, and in Fig. 2 l have shown a second pivotedlever a, which could be secured to the adjacent instrumentalities usedin connection with a second dropper.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a suitably-supported driving-shaft, of achain-gear, secured to said driving-shaft, a chain passing over saidgear,

a second chain-gear, said chain also working over said second gear, adisk secured to said second chain-gear, a pitman secured to said disk, asuitably-held rock-bar, said pitman being secured to said rock-bar, aslotted, supported bottom plate, an adjusting-bar, a plate secured tosaid adjusting-bar covering said slot within said bottom plate, apivoted lever extending from said adjusting-bar, an adjusting leversecured to said pivoted lever, a ratchet-edged perforated feed-plateheld by said slotted bottom plate, a rock-bar engaging saidratchet-edged perforated feed-plate, and a bridge-bar extending fromsaid adjustingbar and working above said ratchet-edged perforatedfeed-plate, all arranged substantially asset forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of Witnesses.

HANS SGHLICHT. WVitnesses ORRIS MosHER,

O. E. VoLLsTED'r,

OTTO 'VoLLsTEDT.

